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Food Thrift Series—No. 4.
AN APPEAL TO WOMEN.
Secretary of Agriculture Points Out
That in Their Own Homes They
Can Aid the Nation's Armies.
The Secretary of Agriculture, in response
to requests from many editors for a statement as to service women can render the
Nation in the direction of producing and
conserving agricultural products, has issued the following:
To the Women of the United States.
"Every woman can render important
service to the Nation in its present emergency. She need not leave her home or
abandon her home duties to help the armed
forces. She can help to feed and clothe our
armies and help to supply food to those beyond the seas by practicing effective thrift
in her own household.
"Every ounce of food the housewife saves
from being wasted in her home—all food
which she or her children produce in the
garden and can or preserve—every garment
which care and skillful repair make it
unnecessary to replace—all lessen that
household's draft on the already insufficient
world supplies.
"To save food the housewife must learn
to plan economical and properly balanced
meals, which, while nourishing each member of the family properly, do not encourage
overeating or offer excessive and wasteful
variety. It is her duty to use all effective
methods to protect food from spoilage by
heat, dirt, mice, or insects. She must
acquire the culinary ability to utilize every
bit of edible food that comes into her home.
She must learn to use such foods as vegetables, beans, peas, and milk products as partial substitutes for meat. She must make it
her business to see that nothing nutritious
is thrown away or allowed to be wasted.
"Waste in any individual household may
seem to be insignificant, but if only a single
ounce of edible food, on the average, is
allowed to spoil or be thrown away in each
of our 20,000,000 homes, over 1,300,000
pounds of material would be wasted each
day. It takes the fruit of many acres and
the work of many people to raise, prepare,
and distribute 464,000,000 pounds of food
a year. Every ounce of food thrown away,
therefore, tends also to waste the labor of
an army of busy citizens.
"Clothing is largely an agricultural prod?
uct and represents the results of labor on
the sheep ranges, in cotton fields, and in
mills and factories. Whenever a useful
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98428°—17
EXTRACTS FROM THE PRESIDENT'S APPEAL TO FARMERS.
I take the liberty, therefore, of addressing
this word to the farmers of the country and to
all who work on the farms: The supreme need
of our own nation and of the nations with
which we are cooperating is an abundance of
supplies, and especially of foodstuffs. The importance of an adequate food supply, especially
for the present year, is superlative. Without
abundant food, alike far the armies and the
peoples now at war, the whole great enterprise
upon which we have embarked will break down
and fail.
May the nation not count upon them to omit
no step that will increase the production of
their land or that will bring about the most
effectual cooperation in the sale and distribution of their products? The time is short. 1Mb
of the most imperative importance that everything possible be done and done immediately
to make sure of large harvests.
A MEAT SUBSTITUTE.
garment is needlessly discarded material
needed to keep some one warm or dry may
be consumed merely to gratify a passing
fancy. Women would do well to look upon
clothing at this time more particularly from
the utilitarian point of view.
"Leather, too, is scarce and the proper
shoeing of armies calls for great supplies of
this material. There are only so many pairs
of shoes in each hide, and there is a shortage
of animals for leather as well as for meat.
Anything that can be done to encourage
adults or children to take care of their shoes
and make them last longer means that so
much more leather is made available for
other purposes.
"Employed women, especially those engaged in the manufacture of food or clothing,
also directly serve their country and should
put into their task3 the enthusiasm and energy the importance of their product warrants.
"While all honor is due to the women who
leave their homes to nurse and care for
those wounded in battle, no woman should
feel that, because she does not wear a nurse's
uniform, she is absolved from patriotic service. The home women of the country, if
they will give their minds fully to this vital
subject of food conservation and train themselves in household thrift, can make of the
housewife's apron a uniform of national
significance.
"Demonstrate thrift in your homes and
encourage thrift among your neighbors.
"Make saving rather than spending your
social standard.
"Make economy fashionable lest it become obligatory."
S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Cottage Cheese Contains Larger Percentage of Body-Building Material
Than Most Meats.
Cottage cheese is one of the important
meat substitutes, say specialists of the
United States Department of Agriculture.
It contains a larger percentage of protein (the
chief material for body building) than most
meats and furnishes this material at a lower
cost. In every pound of cottage cheese
there is about one-fifth of a pound of protein, nearly all of which is digestible.
Meats, on the other hand, usually contain
less protein and besides have a certain waste,
such as bone and other inedible material.
A pound of cottage cheese daily would supply all the protein required by the ordinary
adult engaged in a sedentary occupation.
The following table shows that cottage
cheese is much cheaper than most meats in
furnishing protein for the diet.
For supplying protein, one pound of cottage cheese equals—
1.27 pounds sirloin steak.
1.09 pounds round steak.
1.37 pounds chuck rib beef.
1.52 pounds fowl.
1.4G pounds fresh ham.
1.44 pounds smoked ham.
1.58 pounds loin pork chop.
1.31 pounds hind leg o£
lamb.
1.37 pounds breast of, veal.
In addition to protein, energy for performing body work must be furnished by food.
As a source of energy also cottage cheese is
cheaper than most meats at present prices.
The following table shows the comparison
when energy is considered.
On the basis of energy supplied, one pound
of cottage cheese equals—
8J ounces sirloin steak.
Hi ounces round steak.
Hi ounces chuck rib beef.
10} ounces fowl..
5i ounces fresh ham.
5 ounces smoked ham.
6 ounces loin pork chop.
7J ounces hind leg of
lamb.
12| ounces breast of veal.
How to Make Palatable and Nourishing
Food from Skim Milk.
Cottage cheese can be made from skim
milk which might otherwise go to waste.
After removing the cream for coffee, the
skim milk that is not needed for puddings,
gravies, etc., can easily be made into cottage
cheese. If the milk is sweet it should be
placed in a pan and allowed to remain in a
clean, warm place at a temperature of about
75° until it clabbers. The clabbered milk
should have a clean, sour flavor. Ordinarily
this will take about 48 hours, but when it
is desirable to hasten the process a small
quantity of c^ean-flavored soured milk may
be mixed with the sweet milk. As soon as

U)
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Food Thrift Series—No. 4.
AN APPEAL TO WOMEN.
Secretary of Agriculture Points Out
That in Their Own Homes They
Can Aid the Nation's Armies.
The Secretary of Agriculture, in response
to requests from many editors for a statement as to service women can render the
Nation in the direction of producing and
conserving agricultural products, has issued the following:
To the Women of the United States.
"Every woman can render important
service to the Nation in its present emergency. She need not leave her home or
abandon her home duties to help the armed
forces. She can help to feed and clothe our
armies and help to supply food to those beyond the seas by practicing effective thrift
in her own household.
"Every ounce of food the housewife saves
from being wasted in her home—all food
which she or her children produce in the
garden and can or preserve—every garment
which care and skillful repair make it
unnecessary to replace—all lessen that
household's draft on the already insufficient
world supplies.
"To save food the housewife must learn
to plan economical and properly balanced
meals, which, while nourishing each member of the family properly, do not encourage
overeating or offer excessive and wasteful
variety. It is her duty to use all effective
methods to protect food from spoilage by
heat, dirt, mice, or insects. She must
acquire the culinary ability to utilize every
bit of edible food that comes into her home.
She must learn to use such foods as vegetables, beans, peas, and milk products as partial substitutes for meat. She must make it
her business to see that nothing nutritious
is thrown away or allowed to be wasted.
"Waste in any individual household may
seem to be insignificant, but if only a single
ounce of edible food, on the average, is
allowed to spoil or be thrown away in each
of our 20,000,000 homes, over 1,300,000
pounds of material would be wasted each
day. It takes the fruit of many acres and
the work of many people to raise, prepare,
and distribute 464,000,000 pounds of food
a year. Every ounce of food thrown away,
therefore, tends also to waste the labor of
an army of busy citizens.
"Clothing is largely an agricultural prod?
uct and represents the results of labor on
the sheep ranges, in cotton fields, and in
mills and factories. Whenever a useful
u.
98428°—17
EXTRACTS FROM THE PRESIDENT'S APPEAL TO FARMERS.
I take the liberty, therefore, of addressing
this word to the farmers of the country and to
all who work on the farms: The supreme need
of our own nation and of the nations with
which we are cooperating is an abundance of
supplies, and especially of foodstuffs. The importance of an adequate food supply, especially
for the present year, is superlative. Without
abundant food, alike far the armies and the
peoples now at war, the whole great enterprise
upon which we have embarked will break down
and fail.
May the nation not count upon them to omit
no step that will increase the production of
their land or that will bring about the most
effectual cooperation in the sale and distribution of their products? The time is short. 1Mb
of the most imperative importance that everything possible be done and done immediately
to make sure of large harvests.
A MEAT SUBSTITUTE.
garment is needlessly discarded material
needed to keep some one warm or dry may
be consumed merely to gratify a passing
fancy. Women would do well to look upon
clothing at this time more particularly from
the utilitarian point of view.
"Leather, too, is scarce and the proper
shoeing of armies calls for great supplies of
this material. There are only so many pairs
of shoes in each hide, and there is a shortage
of animals for leather as well as for meat.
Anything that can be done to encourage
adults or children to take care of their shoes
and make them last longer means that so
much more leather is made available for
other purposes.
"Employed women, especially those engaged in the manufacture of food or clothing,
also directly serve their country and should
put into their task3 the enthusiasm and energy the importance of their product warrants.
"While all honor is due to the women who
leave their homes to nurse and care for
those wounded in battle, no woman should
feel that, because she does not wear a nurse's
uniform, she is absolved from patriotic service. The home women of the country, if
they will give their minds fully to this vital
subject of food conservation and train themselves in household thrift, can make of the
housewife's apron a uniform of national
significance.
"Demonstrate thrift in your homes and
encourage thrift among your neighbors.
"Make saving rather than spending your
social standard.
"Make economy fashionable lest it become obligatory."
S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Cottage Cheese Contains Larger Percentage of Body-Building Material
Than Most Meats.
Cottage cheese is one of the important
meat substitutes, say specialists of the
United States Department of Agriculture.
It contains a larger percentage of protein (the
chief material for body building) than most
meats and furnishes this material at a lower
cost. In every pound of cottage cheese
there is about one-fifth of a pound of protein, nearly all of which is digestible.
Meats, on the other hand, usually contain
less protein and besides have a certain waste,
such as bone and other inedible material.
A pound of cottage cheese daily would supply all the protein required by the ordinary
adult engaged in a sedentary occupation.
The following table shows that cottage
cheese is much cheaper than most meats in
furnishing protein for the diet.
For supplying protein, one pound of cottage cheese equals—
1.27 pounds sirloin steak.
1.09 pounds round steak.
1.37 pounds chuck rib beef.
1.52 pounds fowl.
1.4G pounds fresh ham.
1.44 pounds smoked ham.
1.58 pounds loin pork chop.
1.31 pounds hind leg o£
lamb.
1.37 pounds breast of, veal.
In addition to protein, energy for performing body work must be furnished by food.
As a source of energy also cottage cheese is
cheaper than most meats at present prices.
The following table shows the comparison
when energy is considered.
On the basis of energy supplied, one pound
of cottage cheese equals—
8J ounces sirloin steak.
Hi ounces round steak.
Hi ounces chuck rib beef.
10} ounces fowl..
5i ounces fresh ham.
5 ounces smoked ham.
6 ounces loin pork chop.
7J ounces hind leg of
lamb.
12| ounces breast of veal.
How to Make Palatable and Nourishing
Food from Skim Milk.
Cottage cheese can be made from skim
milk which might otherwise go to waste.
After removing the cream for coffee, the
skim milk that is not needed for puddings,
gravies, etc., can easily be made into cottage
cheese. If the milk is sweet it should be
placed in a pan and allowed to remain in a
clean, warm place at a temperature of about
75° until it clabbers. The clabbered milk
should have a clean, sour flavor. Ordinarily
this will take about 48 hours, but when it
is desirable to hasten the process a small
quantity of c^ean-flavored soured milk may
be mixed with the sweet milk. As soon as